What a week....

What a week! It's been a while since I have written so I decided since I am setting here at 2:12 a.m. and can't sleep for shit, I should just catch up on my diary.....Where to begin, hummm

I pulled off a surprise for Hannah, she turned 4 on Tuesday. When I say I pulled off, I mean a week before her birthday she pulled a chair up beside me as I was on the computer and says "Mom, we need to talk," acting all grown up and all, she continues while raising her hands and counting down on her fingers..."for my birthday, I want bawoons, party hats, skeemers, cake with candles...and ummm presents, lots and lots of presents!" Ok, I have to admit I thought it was cute as hell especially the "bawoons and skeemers" but I started to panic some.....here I am a mother to 4 children with a mortgage and bills out the butt and I am drawing unemployment and trying to make the dollars stretch. But in the end, I did manage to go buy the stuff to make her face light up and with the help of my wonderful mother, we pulled it off. Ahhh, success!!!

Then, by Thursday, she is sick.....she didn't sleep worth a crap Wednesday night and when she work up, she had a very runny nose, cough, light fever and was just overall a pain in the butt all day. After waiting at the doctors office that afternoon which seemed to be an eternity, I was told she has caught a bug that is going around attacking people's ears......What the hell?!...anyway, she ended up with an antibiotic, steroids, and cough medicine. I was thinking "Ok, OK...I got this all handled".....BOOM...I get sick....By Friday I feel like death warmed over and look worse than that! The real kicker to it, I have no medical insurance, so I have felt like total shit and have been fighting this horrific crap on my own........It's not a pretty site I must say. On the up side, I think my husband felt sorry for me, Saturday he got up when Hannah woke up and let me sleep in.....that NEVER happens. It was so nice. :)

So, I have spent most of the weekend in my pj's in the recliner or on the couch with tissues all around watching reruns of Roseanne, That 70's Show, and Reba. I did venture out a time or two, had to go to the in-laws for dinner.......there is a whole other story for later.....and I went to a freecycle meeting with my mom. :) All in all, I think I am starting to feel better, maybe I am going to fight this stuff.